<p>In this episode, Tristan Handy and I sit down to unpack a massive shift coming to the data industry: over the next 12 months, the primary consumers of data won&#39;t be humans. They will be AI agents. We dive deep into what this means for data infrastructure, compute costs, and the tools we use every day. We also talk about processing high-volume agent queries, building &quot;context stores&quot;, and why the industry shouldn&#39;t just build &quot;horses with wheels&quot; when designing agentic data engineers. We also take a fun detour comparing the current AI landscape to the early days of dial-up modems and Mosaic browsers , and discuss why stepping away from the screen and going old-school might be the ultimate productivity hack.</p>